THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2536
TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2014
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to housing.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that affordable housing is a serious concern for many Hawaii residents.  According to the 2011 Hawaii housing planning study, up to 50,000 new housing units will need to be built by 2016 to meet the new demand generated by changing demographics and economic conditions.

     Furthermore, native Hawaiians are disproportionately represented among Hawaii's homeless at twenty-eight per cent of the homeless served.  The legislature finds that homelessness is often a revolving door for many native Hawaiian families who struggle with stability and affordable housing and that increasing the availability of housing on homestead land will go a long way in improving the stability of native Hawaiian households.

     SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $           or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2014-2015 to construct housing for beneficiaries on homestead land.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of Hawaiian home lands for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2014.

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Department of Hawaiian Home Lands; Appropriation; Housing

Description:

Appropriates funds to build housing for beneficiaries on homestead land.

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